Colton Superfast Broadband Why it's important and how we can get it......Mike Postle (mike@mpo1.uk)

Phase 1 – AT LAST!! Detailed maps now available

Connecting Cumbria and BT have now released a detailed interactive map of which areas are going to get improved speeds as a result of the public investment in phase 1 of the Connecting Cumbria project. It can be found on www.connectingcumbria.org.uk/when-and-where

 

The map shows a series of concentric (sometimes overlapping) circles centred on those cabinets which are connected by fibre to the enabled exchanges. The signal is then carried from the cabinet to homes and businesses through the old copper wire system – and this is where the signal (and hence speeds) degrades.

 

Those of you within the inner circles (roughly a mile radius from the cabinet) can expect to get superfast broadband (above 24 Mb/s). The speed will then fall off from there so that at the boundaries of the second circles, there will be no improvement over what you have now.   

 

I’ll be commenting on the implications for our Parish in what will probably be a spate of blogs coming up………….